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Honorary Chair

Former United States President George H.W. Bush serves as honorary chair of the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame.  The 41st President was a talented athlete himself, captaining both the varsity baseball and soccer teams at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Pres. Bush went on to captain the Yale baseball team and played in the first two College World Series as a left-handed first baseman.  He succeeds the late President Gerald R. Ford, who had served as the Humanitarian Hall’s first honorary chair since its founding in 1994.

“I am honored to serve in the capacity of honorary chair of the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame,” said Bush. “So many of us enjoy sports as participants and spectators but fall short in recognizing the extraordinary humanitarian commitments made by so many of our favorite athletes.

“This fine organization recognizes our most admired professional and amateur athletes and sports organizations – helping us to understand the significance of being role models and to set positive examples through community service,” he said.

“I applaud the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame for recognizing our community leaders in athletics and will always believe that it is never too late to follow the oldest rule in sports – ‘that it’s how you play the game that counts’.”